Hello Craig, * Craig Sanders wrote on Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 01:06:56PM CEST: > > Directory ~/simple/subpackage also contains a configure.ac file. To > try and help explain my original question, say ~/simple/configure.ac > checked for the presence of the Boost threading library on the host > system. If it found it, it could store the result in a variable. > However, say ~/simple/subpackage/configure.ac also needed to check for > the Boost threading library. Rather than searching for the library > again, is there any way that the result can be passed across to the > configure.ac (actually configure) script in the sub-package from the > configure script in the package? One possibility is to just put the test for Boost in both configure scripts, and store the result in a cached variable, see <http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/html_node/Caching-Results.html>. That way, the sub configure script will not re-run the test but use the cached result if a cache file is used, but also the sub package is still completely usable if used standalone. Hope that helps. Cheers, Ralf _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
